By bluerasberry on May 11, 2009
Actually, this is not a license. It is a medical assistance certification that may or may not have any value. In any case, I just finished a phlebotomy class and got a lot of practice performing and receiving blood draws. As a person who has participated in more than forty clinical trials requiring blood draws, [...]
Posted in education, health, research, rights | Tagged blood
By bluerasberry on February 22, 2009
Twice a year our HVTU CAB (HIV Vaccine Trials Unit Community Advisory Board) meets for fun and to review our mission as a CAB. Part of what we do as a CAB is review the development of HIV vaccine research protocols to the extent that they involve the general public. Whatever information the general public [...]
Posted in education, HIV, research, rights | Tagged CAB, ethics
By bluerasberry on January 13, 2009
I went to a meeting organized by the Washington Department of Health (DoH) to talk about proposed changes to the Washington Administrative Code (WAC). In Washington State (America) there is the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) which is a compilation of all the state laws in force. These laws were set in place at the [...]
Posted in HIV, rights, Seattle | Tagged public health
By bluerasberry on July 3, 2008
I attended Gay Pride in Seattle 2008 as a presenter in the non-profit section of the expo. I was representing Sanjeevani Booti as an American agent and I was trying to raise awareness and get social support for issues relating to HIV in India. I talked about Benares. I told people that it was the [...]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, India, Nepal, non-profit, presentation, rights, Seattle | Tagged expo, heroin, Seattle Gay Pride, volunteer, war, women's rights, youth rights
By bluerasberry on April 23, 2008
I do not own much of value other than than some computer files. I have gone far too long without having those sensibly organized online. I decided that since I already have hosting arranged for other sites then it surely must be time for me to start hosting all my personal materials. I moved this [...]
Posted in computer, legal, rights | Tagged censorship, computer, jargon, sex
By bluerasberry on April 12, 2008
Seattle has a population of about 580,000. For the Gay Pride festival last summer the recorded attendance was 200,000 with 100,000 from out of town. I know that the organizers always inflate these numbers but still it means that a lot of people are involved in this. Nandan and I are getting more serious about [...]
Posted in education, festival, presentation, rights, Seattle | Tagged gay rights, hijra, HIV project, NGO, Sanjeevani Booti
By bluerasberry on February 12, 2008
Nandan and I talk about Sanjeevani Booti continuously. This is the name for the HIV NGO which we are founding. The website is up. Nandan did not know what AIDS was before, and now he knows the basics. He has probed the community for similar organizations and we know what exists. He has talked with [...]
Posted in education, HIV, India, legal, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle, work | Tagged AIDS, license, megacorp, Mehdiganj, NGO, PSA, Sanjeevani Booti, survey, tea, tourism, Varanasi
By bluerasberry on April 3, 2007
Before I start passing on partly unsubstatiated rumors let me say that my studies are going well and that within the last week I have found a surge of speaking proficiency from within. I have begun daily study with M.N. and he presses me to speak and write without preparation or my books. I find [...]
Posted in computer, India, religion, rights | Tagged blood, death, food, gay rights, Hinduism, Islam, marijuana, ritual, scam, Sikhism, sport, water, youth
By bluerasberry on February 9, 2007
My “disco” teacher, whatever ability he has, is intolerable to me. He is too strange to be my teacher and Nandan says he will find another within a day or two. The last thing I will say about oblivious disregard for the notion of alternative sexuality is a description of something that I saw on [...]
Posted in HIV, India, rights | Tagged blood, dance, gender, sex
By bluerasberry on February 7, 2007
Let me clarify that Nandan, and Nandan alone, understands my impression of my “disco boy” teacher. I want to convey my meaning. There have been times in my life when I have had friends introduce me to a date or new acquaintance or some person, and I have been able to perceive a quality in [...]
Posted in drug, India, rights | Tagged business, gay rights